EP0920485B1 - Method and apparatus for utilizing biofuel or waste material in energy production - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for utilizing biofuel or waste material in energy production as described in preamble of claim 1.
- waste material has to be disposed of in one way or another anyhow.
- waste material render them generally inadequate for high efficiency production of energy, such as high temperature, high pressure steam or electricity.
- uneven delivery of waste material may cause problems in energy production that relies solely on waste-material-based fuel.
- the waste material per se is often delivered in a state unsuitable for direct introduction into a steam boiler.
- the material has to be dried, crushed, pelletized or otherwise handled before it is fed into the boiler. Therefore there have been suggested different ways of combining gasifiers with combustors.
- Biofuel and waste material can, however, rather easily be gasified. But the utilization of biofuel and waste material for production of energy presupposes a complete gasification plant, with gasifier and gas cleaners, and a complete power plant, with boiler, turbines, etc. Such is not economically feasible to provide when only small amounts of biofuel or waste material are available.
- waste wood or similar low energy fuel be gasified and gas thus produced be burned in a multi-fuel combustor. Additional pulverized combustible material is injected directly into the gas burning flame.
- German patent application DE 36 32 534 corresponding to US 4,676,177 to gasify fuel which contains alkali compounds in a fluidized bed gasifier at a temperature below 900°C (1652°F) and to burn the gas produced in the gasifier in a combustor at a temperature level high enough (> 900°C) to melt alkali contents in the flue gas.
- the alkali compounds can be separated in a molten state and the cleaned gas can be cooled in a convection section of a boiler.
- an improved method and apparatus for utilizing biofuel or waste material for energy production by gasifying said biofuel or waste material and burning gas produced in the gasifier in a steam boiler, said new method and apparatus being characterized by what is stated in appending independent claims.
- the boiler will be equipped with pulverized coal burners.
- the burners could be oil burners or even natural gas burners.
- the boiler will be of a type in which biofuel or waste material cannot normally be burned. Therefore, it will not be a fluidized bed boiler. Because pulverized coal and oil are the most typical fuels used in the burners, the remainder of this specification sometimes refers to coal or oil burners. However, it will be understood that such references are sufficiently broad to include fossil-fuel-fired burners generally.
- Biofuel or waste material is gasified in the fluidized bed gasifier with a bed of e.g. coal ash separated from boiler flue gases or other solid particulate material.
- the hot raw gas produced in the gasifier may be directly fed into a pulverized coal fired boiler or, preferably, the gas may first be cleaned in order to separate alkali and heavy metal contents therefrom.
- the produced gas is fed into the boiler at a level above the main burners, e.g. the pulverized coal or oil burners therein.
- the burning of gas thereby forming a re-burning stage in the boiler, which decreases NOx content in the boiler flue gases.
- the present invention provides means for replacing a portion of the pulverized coal or oil burned in a boiler with gas derived from cheaper fuel material, such as biofuel or waste material.
- the energy provided by the gas may correspond to 5 - 35 % of the total energy production. In smaller boilers, this percentage may be even greater.
- This replacement of fossil coal or oil with regenerative fuel decreases CO 2 emissions correspondingly in a global perspective.
- a pulverized coal fired boiler having gas burners installed therein, as suggested in the present invention, can in most applications also be used for solely burning pulverized coal, if needed. No such fundamental changes have normally to be made to the boiler, that would make it impossible to use the boiler in a conventional manner.
- the present invention only provides means for utilizing the boiler when desired, continuously or intermittently, for multi fuel energy production.
- An existing power plant utilizing the present invention mainly needs the addition to the existing equipment of a gasifier, possibly gas cleaning and cooling means, and means for transporting gas and ash.
- a process where energy is to be produced solely from biofuel or waste material requires that both a gasification plant and a separate complete boiler plant be built. Even for relatively small boiler plants, such leads to very costly investments.
- Many different fuels may be gasified in a gasifier, and the gasification process can be controlled by controlling the sub-stoichiometric amount of air introduced into the gasifier. This makes it possible to e.g. use a variety of different more-or-less wet biofuels or waste materials.
- the moisture content may vary between 70 - 0 %. When using extremely wet material over-stoichiometric amounts of air may have to be used. This of course leads to a decrease in efficiency.
- Waste material as such is normally easily gasified.
- the material does not have to be pulverized but can be introduced into the gasifier in a rather untreated state.
- Gasification in a fluidized bed, especially in a circulating fluidized bed, is advantageous. Gasification would normally take place at a temperature of 600 - 1100°C (1112° - 2012°F), preferably 750 - 950°C (1382° - 1742°F). Gasification at rather low temperatures leads to fewer problems with depositions of molten ash and other sticky compounds than when combusting waste material at high temperatures.
- flue gas emissions may be minimized by separating alkali components, heavy metal components, such as Pb, Zn, As, and possibly other harmful or noxious components from the product gas before leading the gas into the boiler.
- the cleaning of the gas can advantageously take place in a circulating fluidized bed reactor, where the gas is cooled to about 400 - 600°C (752° - 1112°F).
- the gas should not be cooled to too low a temperature, where tars or other similar components, which otherwise can be burned in their gaseous states, may condense and be separated from the product gas and cause problems, instead of being introduced into the boiler.
- a further advantage achieved by the present invention is the low total excess air content needed in the boiler.
- Burning of gas arranged to take place in the upper part of the boiler needs a very low excess air content of about 5 - 10 %, compared to the excess air of about 15 - 20 % needed when burning pulverized coal in the lower part of the boiler.
- Residual oxygen in the gas burning zone is about 1 - 2,5 % and in the coal burning zone about 3 - 5 %.
- the present invention by providing this re-burning stage, i.e. gas burning stage, in the upper part of the boiler also decreases NOx emissions derived from the pulverized coal burning.
- Gas produced in a gasifier always contains some NH 3 .
- NH 3 introduced with the gas into the upper part of the boiler, will react with NOx components coming from pulverized coal firing.
- Reactions between NH 3 and NOx form harmless N 2 and H 2 O.
- Strongly staged combustion of gas i.e. introducing air at a level substantially above the gas injecting level, also favors these reactions.
- Staged combustion provides sub-stoichiometric conditions at which NH 3 / NOx reactions are favored.
- Ash separated from boiler flue gases can, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, be used as bed material in the fluidized bed gasifier. Thereby the carbon content of boiler ash is at least partly recovered and gasified in the gasifier or possibly recirculated with product gas into the boiler.
- Thermal losses are decreased if the raw uncleaned and uncooled product gas is directly fed into the boiler, as thereby non-gasified carbon fines, derived from waste material or possibly from coal ash, also are injected into the boiler and burned therein.
- the amount of residual coal material in the flyash may reach an as high level as about 5 - 15 %.
- Thermal losses are of course also decreased by the present invention, as combustion of gas takes place at very low total excess air.
- One of the main advantages of the present invention is that solid biofuel or waste material can be utilized in energy production in connection with conventional pulverized coal or oil fired boilers, i.e. utilized for very high efficiency energy production.
- FIGURE 1 illustrates a gasifier 10 for gasification of biofuel and/or waste material, and a pulverized coal fired boiler 12 connected by thereto, for burning pulverized coal or oil and the product gas produced in the gasifier.
- the gasifier 10 is a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) gasifier with a circulating bed of solid particles therein.
- the CFB gasifier includes a gasification chamber 14, a particle separator 16 connected to the upper or gas discharge end of the chamber 14, and a return duct 18 connecting the lower end of the separator 16 with the lower end of the gasification chamber 14.
- a bed of solid particles is fluidized in the gasifier by fluidizing gas, such as air, introduced through a duct 20 through the bottom of the gasification chamber 14.
- Biofuel and/or waste material is introduced into the gasification chamber through duct 22 and instantly mixed into the hot fluidized bed therein.
- the biofuel or waste material may be non-pulverized and non-dried.
- Bed material including bottom ash, coarse solid material etc. may be discharged from the bottom of the gasification chamber through bottom ash discharge duct 24.
- Product gas is discharged from the separator 16 through duct 26.
- the bed material circulating through the chamber 14, separator 16 and return duct 18 provides an even temperature throughout the gasifier and favorable conditions for gasification.
- the boiler 12 is a flow-through boiler with staged pulverized coal burners 28, 28' and 28" feeding coal and air at three levels to three different coal firing zones in the lower part 30 of the boiler. Flue gases are discharged from top of boiler through duct 32 into a convection section 34. Fine ash is separated from the flue gases and discharged through ducts 36. Flue gas is discharged through duct 38. Ash separated from flue gases may be further treated in a device 40. Fine carbon containing ash is led from the device 40 through duct 42 into the gasification chamber 14, for forming circulating fluidized bed material therein.
- Hot raw product gas being produced in the gasifier 10 and being discharged through duct 26 is led through an injector 44 into the boiler 12 at a level 46 above the coal burners 28, 28' and 28".
- Air for burning product gas is introduced through a nozzle or nozzles 48 at a level 50 above the level 46 of the gas injector 44 in order to achieve a staged combustion of product gas in the boiler.
- Residual air contained in the flue gases rising from the coal firing zones is used for burning product gas at its inlet level 46.
- Sub-stoichiometric conditions prevail at the gas inlet level 46, whereby NH 3 in product gas will react with NOx in the flue gases to form harmless N 2 and H 2 O.
- Product gas is thereafter completely burned with air introduced through nozzles 48 at the higher level 50.
- the gas is here burned at a relatively low temperature, preferably 850 - 900°C (1562 - 1652F), at which NOx formation of nitrogen in air is much less than in the combustion process in the lower part of the boiler, where carbonaceous fuel is burned at high temperatures, typically > 1000°C (1832F).
- FIGURE 2 illustrates another system similar to that of FIG. 1.
- the system in FIG. 2 differs from the one in FIG.1 in the treatment of raw product gas before its introduction into the boiler.
- the same reference numbers, preceded by a number "1", are used in FIG. 2, where applicable.
- FIG. 2 shows a CFB gasifier 110, with gasification chamber 114, separator 116, return duct 118, and product gas discharge duct 126, and a boiler 112, with staged coal burners 128, 128' and 128", gas injector 144 and air nozzle or nozzles 148.
- Product gas discharged through the duct 126 from the CFB gasifier 110 is cleaned and cooled in a CFB cooler 152 before being led through a duct 154 and into the boiler 112 via the gas injector 144.
- the CFB gas cooler includes a circulating fluidized bed reactor comprising a reactor chamber 156, separator 158 and return duct 160.
- Hot and unclean raw product gas is introduced as fluidizing gas through the bottom 162 of the reactor chamber 156.
- the lowermost part of the reactor chamber forms a mixing chamber for mixing hot product gas vigorously with particles recirculated into the mixing chamber portion of the reactor chamber 156 through return duct 160.
- the mixing of product gas into a bed of cooled particles very efficiently cools the gas.
- the bed material in the CFB cooler may be formed of ash particles introduced from the boiler through duct 142 and 142'.
- the product gas flow introduced through duct 126 into the reactor chamber 156 transports solid bed particles upward through a riser portion 164 thereof towards a discharge duct 166 connected to the uppermost part of the reactor chamber.
- Heat transfer surfaces 168 are disposed in a riser portion of the reactor chamber above the mixing chamber portion thereof to further cool the suspension of product gas and solid bed material flowing upward through the riser portion of the reactor chamber.
- Cooling of gas causes certain previously-vaporized harmful constituents, such as alkali and heavy metal compounds, to solidify onto bed material particles and become easy to separate from the product gas in the separator 158. Also sticky constituents in raw gas fasten onto bed material and are easily separated from the gas.
- the gas may however, as shown in FIG. 2, be cleaned in still another cyclone 170, which separates residual fine particulate material, such as fly ash and alkalies, from the gas before introducing the cleaned gas through gas injector 144 into the boiler 112.
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- A method for utilizing biofuel or waste material of low energy content or both for energy production, comprising the steps of:introducing said biofuel or waste material or both into a fluidized bed gasifier,operating said fluidized bed gasifier so as to gasify said biofuel or waste material therein and produce a raw gas, andburning said raw gas in a boiler without a fluidized bed,introducing said raw gas produced in said fluidized bed gasifier into a steam-generating boiler equipped with fossil fuel burners, said introducing step occurring at a level in said boiler that is above the level of said burners, andburning said raw gas at said level above the level of said burners in said boiler.
- A method according to claim 1, characterized by the further steps of:separating ash from flue gases that have been discharged from said boiler,introducing said separated ash into said fluidized bed gasifier, andusing said separated ash in said gasifier to provide a fluidized bed of solid particles therein.
- A method according to claim 2, characterized by the further steps of:passing effluent from said fluidized bed gasifier to a separator,separating particulate material from gases in said separator,passing said separated gases to said boiler as said raw gas, andreturning said separated particulate material to said gasifier.
- A method according to claim 1, characterized by comprising the further steps of:passing effluent from said fluidized bed gasifier to a separator,separating particulate material from gases in said separator,passing said separated gases to said boiler as said raw gas, andreturning said separated particulate material to said gasifier.
- A method according to claim 1, characterized by the further step of cleaning said raw gas by removing alkalies or metal components or both from said raw gas before said raw gas is introduced into said boiler.
- A method according to claim 5, characterized by the step of condensing vaporized harmful or noxious components from said raw gas before said raw gas is introduced into said boiler.
- A method according to claim 6, characterized by the condensing step including the step of passing said raw gas through a circulating fluidized bed reactor having a bed of coal ash after said raw gas exits said gasifier and before said raw gas is introduced into said boiler.
- A method according to claim 5, characterized by said cleaning step including the step of passing raw gas through a circulating fluidized bed reactor having a bed of coal ash after said raw gas exits said gasifier and before said raw gas is introduced into said boiler.
- A method according to claim 1, characterized by said step of burning said raw gas in said boiler comprising the step of carrying out said burning at a temperature of 800 - 1050°C (1472 - 1922F).
- A method according to claim 1, characterized by said step of burning said raw gas in said boiler comprising the step of burning an amount of said gas to provide between 5 and 35 % of the total energy production of the boiler.
- A method according to claim 1, characterized by said step of burning said raw gas in said boiler comprising the step of carrying out said burning at a temperature of 850 - 900°C (1562 - 1652F) and with excess air content of about 5 - 10 %, thereby providing advantageous re-burning conditions of flue gases rising upward from the firing zone in the lower part of the boiler.
- A method according to claim 1, characterized by said step of introducing said biofuel or waste material or both into a fluidized bed gasifier comprising the step of introducing mainly non-pulverized and non-dried biofuel or waste material or both into said fluidized bed gasifier.
- Apparatus for utilizing biofuel or waste material of low energy content or both for energy production, comprising:a fluidized bed gasifier for gasifying biofuel or waste material or both,a steam-generating boiler without a fluidized bed, andmeans for transporting gas produced in said gasifier to said boiler
the boiler is equipped with fossil fuel burners in a lower part thereof and means disposed at a level of said boiler above the level of said burners for introducing said gas into said boiler. - Apparatus according to claim 13, characterized in that the apparatus further comprises means for discharging ash from said boiler and means for introducing said discharged ash into said gasifier for providing a bed of solid particles therein.
- Apparatus according to claim 13, characterized in that said gasifier is a circulating fluidized bed gasifier.
- Apparatus according to claim 13, characterized in that a gas cleaning means is connected to said gasifier and to said boiler, said gas cleaning means receiving gas produced in the gasifier and cleaning same before said gas is introduced into said boiler.
- Apparatus according to claim 16, characterized in that the cleaning means comprises a circulating fluidized bed reactor.
- Apparatus according to claim 16, characterized in that the cleaning means comprises a circulating fluidized bed reactor having a circulating bed of coal ash therein.
- Apparatus according to claim 16, characterized in that a particle separator is connected to said gas cleaning means downstream thereof and also connected to said boiler, said particle separator comprising means for separating fine solid components from said gas before said gas is introduced into said boiler.
- Apparatus according to claim 13, characterized in that a gas cooling means is connected to said gasifier and to said boiler, said gas cooling means receiving gas produced in the gasifier and cooling same before said gas is introduced into said boiler.
- Apparatus according to claim 20, characterized in that the cooling means comprises a circulating fluidized bed reactor.
- Apparatus according to claim 20, characterized in that the cooling means comprises a circulating fluidized bed reactor having a circulating bed of coal ash therein.
- Apparatus according to claim 20, characterized in that a particle separator is connected to said gas cooling means downstream thereof and also connected to said boiler, said particle separator comprising means for separating fine solid components from said gas before said gas is introduced into said boiler.
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